DEATH OF A BABY
j MOTHER CHARGED WITH MURDER, i • By Telejrnph.—Press Association. '•" Wellington, Last Night, i A young woman named Agneg Eliza Mepham was charged in the Magii- '3 trate's Court tcuday with having, on. June 9, murdered her infant male: child, 5 The body of the child was found among some blackberry bushes near Johnsonville. Dr. Hector, who made a post mortem !; examination, said that the infant liad been asphyxiated through a piece of tape being tied round its neck. The accused, when seen by Detective ' Andrews, admitted that she had given birth to a child some time during the i second week in June, and that she had ■' placed the body in the spot where it ■ was found. , Tlie accused reserved her defence, and - was committed to the* Supreme Cour* for trial. J The adjourned inquest on the infant wa» held immediately after, and the i Voum mimi m n* ss&t, -
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1920, Page 5
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